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After riding the rails to Philadelphia on Tuesday night after their game against the Carolina Hurricanes, the Washington Capitals didn't get in until about 1:30 a.m. Factor in time to unwind, center Mathieu Perreault said, and bedtime wasn't until 3.
The results the following night were less than ideal. The Caps were scored on 23 seconds in and had no real push-back the rest of the game. They were subsequently skated out of Wells Fargo Center by the Flyers.
"I think guys were just tired, but it's not a reason," Perreault said. "If we're tired we've got to find a way to keep it together. We can't blow it like that right away from the start."
That's one of the lessons the Caps take into Saturday's game at the Winnipeg Jets and throughout the rest of the season. With five more back-to-back sets the rest of the season and four that involve travel, players know they can't make excuses.
But many do want to forget about the Flyers game, throwing it out and chalking it up to fatigue as a bad loss.
"Definitely a big hiccup in Philly," forward Matt Hendricks said. "It wasn't our best outing at all, we didn't show up to play right away and that's really what affected us. … I think you've got to look at it and learn from it, but you've got to let it go and move on to the next one because we don't have time to dwell."
In a shortened season there isn't much time to dwell on wins or losses. But there is just enough time for coach Adam Oates to impart some lessons from the Flyers debacle.
"I just showed the guys today some situations where we kind of shot ourselves in the foot, where we had opportunities to alleviate some pressure, get it down the ice,," Oates said. "We didn't execute a pass, we didn't chip it correctly. And that's probably mental and fatigue. But those are the plays we have to execute or the [situation] will look overwhelming."
Going into what could be an overwhelming environment Saturday afternoon at MTS Centre, without injured defenseman Mike Green, the Caps understand the value of a good start. Or at least not stumbling out of the gate as badly as they did Wednesday.
The Jets have scored in the first five minutes in five of their past six games, including Andrew Ladd's goal eight seconds in Thursday against the New Jersey Devils.
"We got scored on before the anthem was done last game, and they scored a goal right at the beginning of the game," right wing Troy Brouwer said. "We've got to have a good start there. We know they're going to come out hard; we know they're going to play a hard game at home and their fans are going to be very into it. So we've got to make sure that we're ready to play."
Oates likes to be able to show his team Xs and Os, but he said avoiding a bad start is on the players.
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The Caps are prepared for what to expect in Winnipeg: a raucous crowd unlike most around the NHL. Brouwer said the excitement of having the Jets back is still "fresh," and players can feel it.
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It was a so so episode, enjoyed seeing Charles Grodin and Eliot Gould. Thought it was interesting how they played it, but it wasn't totally about Penn State. I do believe a school in New York did have a scandal also but it wasn't as big as Penn State.
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Recently Apache Hama team released official 0.7.0 version. According to the release announcement, there were big improvements in Graph package. In this article, we provide an overview of the newly improved Graph package of Apache Hama, and the benchmark results that performed by cloud platform team at Samsung Electronics.
Large scale datasets are being increasingly used in many fields. Graph algorithms are becoming important for analyzing big data. Data scientists are able to predict the behavior of the customer, the trends of the market, and make a decision by analyzing the graph structure and characteristics. Currently there are a variety of open source graph analytic frameworks, such as Google's Pregel[1], Apache Giraph[2], GraphLab[3] and GraphX[4]. These frameworks are aimed at computations varying from classical graph traversal algorithms to graph statistics calculations such as triangle counting to complex machine learning algorithms. However these frameworks have been developed each offering a solution with different programming models and targeted at different users. In this article, we introduce the Apache Hama[5] and its graph package.
What is Apache Hama?
Apache Hama is a general-purpose Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP)[6] computing engine on top of Hadoop. It provides a parallel processing framework for massive scientific and iterative algorithms. BSP is an easy and flexible programming model, as compared with traditional models of Message Passing, as shown in Figure 1.
|Figure 1. Bulk Synchronos Parallel (BSP) Model.
Hama performs a series of supersteps based on BSP. A superstep consist of three stages: local computation, message communication, and barrier synchronization. Hama is suitable for iterative computation since it is possible that input data which can be saved in memory is able to transfer between supersteps. However, MapReduce must scan input data in each iteration, and then output data must be saved in file system, such as HDFS. Hence, Hama can solve the problems which MapReduce cannot handle easily.
Graph Package of Apache Hama
Apache Hama also supports a graph package which allows users to program applications for graph-parallel computations[7]. The vertex-centric model is suggestive of MapReduce[8] in that users focus on a local action, processing each item independently, and the system compose these actions to lift computation to a large graph dataset. It is easy to implement and prove to be useful for many graph algorithms.
Figure 2. Finding the maximum value in a graph example.
Dotted lines are messages. Grey vertices have voted to halt.
Figure 2 illustrates the concept of graph processing in Hama using a simple example: given a connected graph where each vertex contains a value, it propagates the latest value to every vertex. Any vertex that has known a larger value from its messages sends it to all its neighbors in each superstep. When no more vertices change in a superstep, the algorithm terminates. If you want to know graph package in Hama, please refer to Apache Hama Programming[7].
Hama in Action
We performed the performance of the version of 0.7.0 of Hama, which is recently release, on Amazon Web Service Elastic Map Reduce(EMR) instances. PageRank[9] algorithm is used for benchmark test of the graph package. PageRank is an algorithm that is used to rank web pages according to their popularity. This algorithm calculates the probability that a random walk would end in a particular vertex of a graph. This application computes the page rank of every vertex in a directed graph iteratively. At every iteration t, each vertex computes the following:
where r is the probability of the a random jump, E is the set of directed edge in the graph and PRt(j) denotes the page rank of the vertex at iteration t.
We compared the performance of Hama with Giraph which is a graph framework that is used in Facebook. PageRank algorithm was already implemented in both of the frameworks. Default input types in Hama is text type and in Giraph is JSON. We implement input format of JSON to run in Hama for a fair comparison. JSON type format is as follows:
Above datasets are generated using fastgen example program which generates random graph datasets. The way fastgen generate the datasets on Hama cluster is as follows:
% bin/hama jar hama-examples-x.x.x.jar gen fastgen -v 1000 -e 100 -of json -o /randomgraph -t 40
The following is the meaning of the options:
Experimental Results
In this section, we describes our experimental setup with details about datasets and experimental platform. We conducted various experiments with PageRank algorithm on EMR cluster. We used graph datasets randomly generated using fastgen example in Hama. Also we run benchmarks on EMR cluster which consists of instance type of r3.xlarge[10]. This instance type is memory-optimized instance type which has 30GB of RAM, and 4 vCPU. The cluster run on the hadoop 1.0.3(Amazon Machine Image version 2.4.11). That is because Giraph didn't work well on hadoop 2.
Hama provides pure BSP model via own cluster. Furthermore, it works on both Hadoop YARN[11] and Apache Mesos[12]. Although Giraph has same programming model like Hama, it works as a MapReduce job which means that it requires MapReduce framework. So Hama performed PageRank algorithm making its own cluster. On the other hands, Giraph perform MapReduce application on hadoop.
For benchmarking of scalability, we increased the number of machines from 5 to 30 on a fixed dataset which has one billion edges (Figure 4). Both frameworks present significant scalability for same datasets. However, Hama has much lower execution time than Giraph for the same data set.
|Figure 3. The execution time on same data set, depending on the size of machines.
From the computing performance's point of view, Figure 4 shows execution time on same nodes, depending on the size of dataset. Hama also shows more powerful performance than Giraph for the same machines.
The main reason that the result of benchmark shows different performance in spite of the same programming model is that we use the advanced PageRank algorithm which uses aggregators for detecting the convergence condition and the BSP framework's efficient messaging system. Hama uses own outgoing/incoming message manager instead of Java's built-in queues. It stores messages in serialized form in a set of bundles (or a single bundle) to reduce the memory usage and RPC overhead. Also unsafe serialization is used to serialize Vertex and its message objects more quickly. Instead of sending each message individually, Hama packages the messages per vertex at once and sends a packaged message to their assigned destination nodes. With this Hama v0.7 achieved significant improvement in the performance of graph applications.
Figure 4. The execution time on same machine, depending on the size of dataset.
Conclusion and future work
In this article, we presented a graph package of Hama. We also performed the performance of graph package, with Hama. The performance compared with Giraph, in respect of computing and scalability. As a result, the performance and scalability are already satisfactory for graphs with billions of vertices.
However, there are also a lot of improvement to be done based on the current version. Efficient load balancing, spillable vertices storage and message serialization are challenging issues. We look forward to add these features and see our community growth.
[1] G. Malewicz, M. Austern, A. Bik, J. Dehnert, I. Horn, N. Leiser, and G. Czajkowski. Pregel: a system for large-scale graph processing. Principles Of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2009.
[2] Apache Giraph v 1.1.0 http://giraph.apache.org/
[3] GraphLab https://dato.com/products/create/open_source.html
[4] Apache Spark's GraphX https://spark.apache.org/graphx/
[5] Apache Hama v 0.7.0. http://hama.apache.org/
[6] Leslie G. Valiant, A bridging model for parallel computation, Communications of the ACM, Volume 33 Issue 8, Aug. 1990
[7] Apache Hama BSP programming, http://people.apache.org/~tjungblut/downloads/hamadocs/
[8] Dean, Jeffrey, and Sanjay Ghemawat. "MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters." Communications of the ACM 51.1 (2008): 107-113.
[9] Page, Larry, et al. PageRank: Bringing order to the web. Vol. 72. Stanford Digital Libraries Working Paper, 1997.
[10] Amazon EC2 instances, http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
[11] Apache Hadoop YARN arhitecture, https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-yarn/
[12] Apache Mesos, http://mesos.apache.org/
[13] Satish, Nadathur, et al. "Navigating the maze of graph analytics frameworks using massive graph datasets." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data. ACM, 2014.
[14] General dynamics, High Performance Data Analytics, http://gdmissionsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/GDMS_White_Paper_20151.pdf
[2] Apache Giraph v 1.1.0 http://giraph.apache.org/
[3] GraphLab https://dato.com/products/create/open_source.html
[4] Apache Spark's GraphX https://spark.apache.org/graphx/
[5] Apache Hama v 0.7.0. http://hama.apache.org/
[6] Leslie G. Valiant, A bridging model for parallel computation, Communications of the ACM, Volume 33 Issue 8, Aug. 1990
[7] Apache Hama BSP programming, http://people.apache.org/~tjungblut/downloads/hamadocs/
[8] Dean, Jeffrey, and Sanjay Ghemawat. "MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters." Communications of the ACM 51.1 (2008): 107-113.
[9] Page, Larry, et al. PageRank: Bringing order to the web. Vol. 72. Stanford Digital Libraries Working Paper, 1997.
[10] Amazon EC2 instances, http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
[11] Apache Hadoop YARN arhitecture, https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-yarn/
[12] Apache Mesos, http://mesos.apache.org/
[13] Satish, Nadathur, et al. "Navigating the maze of graph analytics frameworks using massive graph datasets." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data. ACM, 2014.
[14] General dynamics, High Performance Data Analytics, http://gdmissionsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/GDMS_White_Paper_20151.pdf
Minho Kim is a software engineer at Samsung Electronics in the Cloud Technology Lab. Minho is a committer of Apache Hama project, which is a general BSP computing engine. He has been developing and contributing to Apache Hama. Minho's research interests include deep learning such as DNN, and CNN.
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HBase has emerged as one of the most popular NoSQL database offering distributed, versioned, non-relational tables hosted on commodity hardware. However, with a large set of users coming from a relational SQL world, it made sense to bring the SQL back in this NoSQL. With Apache Phoenix, database professionals get a convenient way to query HBase through SQL in a fast and efficient manner. Continuing our discussion with James Taylor, the founder of Apache Phoenix, we focus on the functional aspects of Phoenix in this second part of interaction.
Although Apache Phoenix started off with distinct low latency advantage, have the other options like Hive/Impala (integrated with HBase) caught up in terms of performance?
No, these other tools such as Hive and Impala have not invested in improving performance against HBase data, so if anything, Phoenix's advantage has only gotten bigger as our performance improves.
See this link for comparison of Apache Phoenix with Apache Hive and Cloudera Impala.
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What lies ahead on roadmap for Apache Phoenix in 2015?
Our upcoming 4.4 release introduces a number of new features: User Defined Functions, UNION ALL support, Spark integration, Query Server to support thin (and eventually non Java) clients, Pherf tool for testing at scale, MR-based index population, and support for HBase 1.0.
We are also actively working on transaction support by integrating with Tephra (http://tephra.io/). If all goes according to plan, we'll release this after our 4.4 release (in 4.5 or 5.0), as this work is pretty far along (check out our txn branch to play around with it).
In parallel with this, we're working on Apache Calcite integration to improve interop with the greater Hadoop ecosystem through plugging into a rich cost-based optimizer framework. IMHO, this is the answer to ubiquitous usage of Phoenix for HBase data across queries that get data from any other Calcite adapter source (RDBMS, Hive, Drill, Kylin, etc.). This will allow a kind of plug and play approach with this the push down being decided based on a common cost model that all these other tools plug into.
Come hear more and see a demo at our upcoming Meetups or at HBaseCon 2015.
Does Apache Phoenix also talk to HCatalog or is that interaction left off to HBase itself?
Phoenix manages its metadata through a series of internal HBase tables. It has no interaction with HCatalog.
Can Apache Phoenix be connected with BI tools which have traditionally relied on ODBC drivers?
Phoenix can connect with BI tools that support a JDBC driver. However, BI tools that rely on an ODBC driver are more challenging. There's a new thin driver plus query server model that we support in our upcoming 4.4 release which will help, though. This thin driver will open the door for an ODBC driver to be achievable by writing the same protocol that our Java-based thin driver use (JSON over http).
Which commercial distributions is Apache Phoenix part of?
Apache Phoenix is available in the Hortonworks HDP distribution. Make sure to let your vendor of choice know that you'd like to see Phoenix included in their distribution as well, as that's what will make it happen.
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Apache Phoenix is a powerful tool for implementing a relational layer on top of NoSQL HBase database. Low latency query model combined with SQL give the tool a strong edge over HBase API or shell commands. To discover more about the tool and find out how it works, HadoopSphere interacted with James Taylor, founder of Apache Phoenix.
How does Apache Phoenix fit in the crowded SQL on Hadoop space?
Apache Phoenix is specifically meant for accessing HBase data. It's not trying to compete with the Hive and Impalas of the world. We do very specific optimizations for HBase to ensure you get the best possible performance.
What are the complexities that Apache Phoenix abstracts away from the user?
Phoenix abstracts away the same complexities that a RDBMS does when you use SQL versus reading raw bytes from files that represent a page of data on disk. Sure, this is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by a lot. The HBase client APIs are very low level, at the level of byte arrays. There's no support for composite row keys in HBase, for example, so your left bit twiddling the start and stop row in your scans. Performance in HBase changes with each version, so in prior versions you'd get a 25% boost by avoiding the use of the ExplicitColumnTracker.
Above and beyond these lower level details are higher level features such as secondary indexes (now supporting functional indexes), user defined functions (available in 4.4), and just the overall capabilities for querying in SQL (with a parallel execution) versus writing lots and lots of Java code (with a serial execution). Try writing a N-way join with aggregation and union in the HBase client API. And then compare the performance. And then change your data model and see which one takes longer to adapt.
Can you tell us about internal architecture of Apache Phoenix? How does it work?
Apache Phoenix takes your SQL query, compiles it into a series of HBase scans, and orchestrates the running of those scans to produce regular JDBC result sets. The table metadata is stored in an HBase table and versioned, such that snapshot queries over prior versions will automatically use the correct schema. Phoenix has a pretty typical query engine architecture with a parser, compiler, planner, optimizer, and execution engine. We push as much computation as possible into the HBase server which provides plenty of hooks for us to leverage. This helps us achieve our stellar performance.
Taking an example, can you help us understand Apache Phoenix's execution plan?
Take a look at the video from my HBaseCon presentation here to get a good overview (about 15mins in). Other good references can be found here on Apache Phoenix website.
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HadoopSphere discussed with Kasper Sorensen, VP of Apache MetaModel on the functional fitment and features of Apache MetaModel. Here is what Kasper had to say about this interesting product.
With the wide prevalence of multiple data stores including relational, NoSQL and unstructured formats, it becomes natural to look for a library which can act as a common exploration and querying connector. Apache MetaModel is one such library which aims to provide a common interface for discovery, metadata exploration and querying of different types of data sources. With MetaModel, the user can currently query CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra, MySQL, Oracle DB and SQL Server among others.
"MetaModel is a library that encapsulates the differences and enhances the capabilities of different data stores. Rich querying abilities are offered to data stores that do not otherwise support advanced querying and a unified view of the data store structure is offered through a single model of the schema, tables, columns and relationships."
HadoopSphere discussed with Kasper Sorensen, VP of Apache MetaModel on the functional fitment and features of Apache MetaModel. Here is what Kasper had to say about this interesting product.
Please help us understand the purpose of Apache MetaModel and which use cases can Apache MetaModel fit in?
MetaModel was designed to make connectivity across very different types of databases, data file formats and likewise possible with just one uniform approach. We wanted an API where you can explore and query a data source using exactly the same codebase regardless of the source being an Excel spreadsheet, a relational database or something completely different.
There are quite a lot of frameworks out there that do this. But they more or less have the requirement that you need to map your source to some domain model and then you end up actually querying the domain model, not the data source itself. So if your user is the guy that is interested in the Excel sheet or the database table itself then he cannot directly relate his data with what he is getting from the framework. This is why we used the name 'MetaModel' – we present data based on a metadata model of the source, not based on a domain model mapping approach.
How does Apache MetaModel work?
It is important for us that MetaModel have very little infrastructure requirements - so you don't have to use any particular container type or dependency injection framework. MetaModel is plain java oriented and if you want to use it you just instantiate objects, call methods etc.
Whenever you want to interact with data in MetaModel you need an object that implements the DataContext interface. A DataContext is a bit like a "Connection" to a database. The DataContext exposes methods to explore the metadata (schemas, tables etc.) as well as to query the actual data. The Query API is preferably type-safe Java, linked to the metadata objects, but you can also express your query as SQL if you like.
Depending on the type of DataContext, we have a few different ways of working. For SQL databases we of course want to delegate more or less the whole query to the database. On other source types we can only delegate some parts of the query to the underlying database. For instance, if you apply a GROUP BY operation to a NoSQL database, then we usually have to do the grouping part ourselves. For that we have a pluggable query engine. Finally some source types, such as CSV files or XML documents, do not have a query engine already and we wrap our own query engine around them.
Some sources can also be updated. We offer a functional interface where you pass a UpdateScript object that does required update, when it is possible according to the underlying source and with the transactional features that it may or may not support.
Give us a snapshot of what is Apache MetaModel competing with - both in open source and commercial ecosystem?
I don't think there's anything out there that is really a LOT like MetaModel. But there are obviously some typical frameworks that has a hint of the same.
JPA, Hibernate and so on are similar in the way that they are essentially abstracting away the underlying storage technology. But they are very different in the sense that they are modelled around a domain model, not the data source itself.
LINQ (for .NET) has a lot of similarities with MetaModel. Obviously the platform is different though and the syntax of LINQ is superior to anything we can achieve as being "just" a library. On the plus-side for MetaModel, I believe we have one of the easiest interfaces to implement if you want to make your own adaptor.
What lies ahead on the roadmap for Apache MetaModel in 2015?
We are in a period of taking small steps so that we get a feel of what the community wants. For example we just made a release where we added write/update support for our ElasticSearch module.
So the long-term roadmap is not really set in stone. But we do always want to expand the portfolio of supported data stores. I personally also would like to see MetaModel used in a few other Apache projects so maybe we need to work outside of our own community, engaging with others as well.
Why would a user explore metadata using Apache MetaModel and not connect to various data stores directly?
If you only need to connect to one data store, which already has a query engine and all - then you don't have to use MetaModel. A key strength in MetaModel is the uniformed access to multiple data stores and similarly a weakness is in utilizing all the functionality of a source. We do have great metrics overall, but if you're chasing to optimize the use of just one source then you can typically receive better results by going directly to it.
Another reason might be to get a query API for things such as CSV files, Spreadsheets and so on, which normally have no query capabilities. MetaModel will provide you with a convenient shortcut there.
Also testability is a strong point of MetaModel. You may write code to interact with your database, but simply test it using a POJO data store (an in-memory Java collection structure) which is fast and light-weight.
It seems Apache MetaModel does not support HDFS though it supports HBase. Any specific reason for that?
Not really, except it wasn't requested by the community yet. But we do have interfaces that quite easily let you use e.g. the CsvDataContext on a resource (file) in HDFS. In fact a colleague of mine did that already for a separate project where a MetaModel-based application was applied to Hadoop.
My guess to answer "why" this is less interesting is that if you're a HDFS user then you typically have such an amount of data that you anyways don't want to use a querying framework (as MetaModel) but rather want a processing framework (such as MapReduce or so) in order to handle it.
Does Apache MetaModel support polyglot operations with multiple data stores?
Yes, a common thing that our users ask is stuff like "I have a CSV file which contains keys that are also represented in my database – can I join them?" … And with MetaModel you absolutely can. We offer a class called CompositeDataContext which basically lets you query (and explore for that matter) multiple data stores as if they were one.
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The need for defining a robust data governance layer is becoming an essential requirement for an enterprise data lake. Continuing our discussion on data governance, we focus on Apache Falcon as a solution option for governing the data pipelines. HadoopSphere discussed with Srikanth Sundarrajan, VP of Apache Falcon, about the product as well as the data governance requirements. In the first part of the interview, we talked about Falcon's architecture. We further discuss the functional aspects in the interaction below.
What lies ahead on the roadmap of Apache Falcon for 2015?
Major focus areas for Apache Falcon in 2015 and beyond:
• Entity management and Instance administration dashboard – Currently CLI based administration is very limiting and the real power of the dependency information available within Falcon can't be unlocked without an appropriate visual interface. Also entity management complexities can be cut down through a friendlier UI.
• Recipes – Today Falcon supports notion of a process to perform some action over data. But there are standard and routine operations that may be applicable for a wide range of users. Falcon project is currently working on enabling this through the notion of recipe. This will enable users to convert their standard data routines into templates for reuse and more importantly some common templates can be shared across users/organizations.
• Life cycle – Falcon supports standard data management functions off the shelf, however the same doesn't cater to every user's requirement and might require customization. Falcon team is currently working on opening this up and allowing this to be customized per deployment to cater to specific needs of a user.
• Operational simplification – When Falcon becomes the de-facto platform (as is the case with some of the users), the richness of dependency information contained can be leveraged to operationally simplify how data processing is managed. Today handling infrastructure outage/maintenance or degradation or application failures can stall large pipelines causing cascading issues. Dependency information in Falcon can be used to seamlessly recover from these without any manual intervention.
• Pipeline designer – This is a forward-looking capability in Falcon that enables big data ETL pipelines to be authored visually. This would generate code in language such as Apache Pig and wrap them in appropriate Falcon process and define appropriate feeds.
Can you elaborate on key desired components of big data governance regardless of tool capabilities at this stage?
Security, Quality, Provenance and Privacy are fundamental when it comes to data governance
• Quality – Quality of data is one of the most critical components and there has to be convenient ways to both audit the system for data quality and also build proactive mechanism to cut out any sources of inaccuracies
• Provenance – Organizations typically have complex data flows and often times it is challenging to figure the lineage of this data. To be able to get this lineage at a dataset level, field level and at a record level (in that order of importance) is very important.
• Security – This is fundamental and hygiene to any data system. Authentication, Authorization and Audit trail are non-negotiable. Every user has to be authenticated and all access to data is to be authorized and audited.
• Privacy – Data anonymization is one of the key techniques to conform to laws and regulation of the land. This is something that the data systems have to natively support or enable.
Why would an enterprise not prefer to use commercial tools (like Informatica) and rather use open source Apache Falcon?
Apache Falcon is a Hadoop first data management system and integrates well with standard components in the big data open source eco systems that are widely adopted. This native integration with Hadoop is what makes it a tool of choice. Apache Falcon being available under liberal APL 2.0 license and housed under ASF allows users/organizations to experiment with it easily and also enable them to contribute their extensions. Recent elevation of Apache Falcon to a top-level project also assures the users about the community driven development process adopted within the Falcon project.
If someone is using Cloudera distribution, what are the options for him?
Apache Falcon is distribution agnostic and should work (with some minor tweaks) for anyone using Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 and above along with Oozie 4.1.0. There are plenty of users who use Apache Falcon along with HDP. One of the largest users of Apache Falcon has used it along with CDH 3 and CDH 4, and there are some users who have tried using Apache Falcon with MapR distribution as well.
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The original version of Apache Falcon was built back in early 2012. InMobi Technologies, one of the largest users of the system, has been using this as a de-facto platform, for managing their ETL pipelines for reporting & analytics, model training, enforcing data retention policies, data archival and large scale data movement across WAN. Another interesting application where Falcon is being used is to run identical pipelines in multiple sites on local data and results merged in a single location.
Falcon has two modes of deployment, embedded and distributed. In Embedded model the Falcon server is complete by itself and provides all the capabilities. In distributed mode the Prism, a lightweight proxy takes center stage and provides a veneer over multiple Falcon instances, which may be run in different geographies. The prism ensures that the falcon entities are in sync across the Falcon server and provides a global view of everything happening on the system.
Over the past few months, Apache Falcon has been gaining traction as a data governance engine for defining, scheduling, and monitoring data management policies. Apache Falcon is a feed processing and feed management system aimed at making it easier for Hadoop administrators to define their data pipelines and auto-generate workflows in Apache Oozie.
HadoopSphere interacted with Srikanth Sundarrajan, VP of Apache Falcon, to understand the usage and functional intricacies of the product. This is what Srikanth told us:
What is the objective of Apache Falcon and what use cases does it fit in?
Apache Falcon is a tool focused on simplifying data and pipeline management for large-scale data, particularly stored and processed through Apache Hadoop. Falcon system provides standard data life cycle management functions such as data replication, eviction, archival while also providing strong orchestration capabilities for pipelines. Falcon maintains dependency information between data elements and processing elements. This dependency information can be used to provide data provenance besides simplifying pipeline management.
Today Apache Falcon system is being used widely for addressing the following use cases:
• Declaring and managing data retention policy
• Data mirroring, replication, DR backup
• Data pipeline orchestration
• Tracking data lineage & provenance
• ETL for Hadoop
The original version of Apache Falcon was built back in early 2012. InMobi Technologies, one of the largest users of the system, has been using this as a de-facto platform, for managing their ETL pipelines for reporting & analytics, model training, enforcing data retention policies, data archival and large scale data movement across WAN. Another interesting application where Falcon is being used is to run identical pipelines in multiple sites on local data and results merged in a single location.
How does Apache Falcon work? Can you describe to us major components and their function?
Apache Falcon has three basic entities that it operates with:
- firstly cluster, which represent physical infrastructure,
- secondly feed which represents a logical data element with periodicity and,
- thirdly process, which represent a logical processing element that may depend on one or more data elements and may produce one or more data elements.
At the core of it Apache Falcon maintains two graphs, (1) one is the entity graph and (2) the other is instance graph. The entity graph captures the dependencies between the entities and is maintained in an in-memory structure. The instance graph on the other hand maintains information about instances that have been processed and their dependencies. This is stored on a blueprint compatible graph database.
Falcon system integrates with Apache Oozie for all its orchestration requirements, be it a data life-cycle function or process execution. While control remains with Oozie for all the workflows and its execution, Falcon injects pre and post processing hooks into the flows, allowing Falcon to learn about the execution and completion status of each workflow executed by Oozie. Post processing hook essentially sends a notification via JMS to the Falcon server, which then uses this control signal for supporting other features such as Re-runs and CDC (change data capture).
Falcon has two modes of deployment, embedded and distributed. In Embedded model the Falcon server is complete by itself and provides all the capabilities. In distributed mode the Prism, a lightweight proxy takes center stage and provides a veneer over multiple Falcon instances, which may be run in different geographies. The prism ensures that the falcon entities are in sync across the Falcon server and provides a global view of everything happening on the system.
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Linda continues to hide in the garret, but when she learns that Mr. Sands has been elected to Congress and will leave for Washington shortly, she risks revealing her hiding place to beg him to free her children before he leaves. He agrees to do what he can.
After Mr. Sands leaves, Linda writes numerous letters to Dr. Flint and — with the help of her friends — has them postmarked from New York to trick Dr. Flint into thinking she has left the state.
Linda's determination to trick or outwit Dr. Flint may bring to mind the experiences of Penelope, Odysseus' wife, who used her "cunning" to escape the pursuit of her numerous suitors. (Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Anchor Books, 1963. Book 2, 21-22.)
After assuring them that she would marry one of them only after she has finished weaving a shroud for Lord Laertes, she spends her days weaving the shroud and her nights unraveling it. Thus, like Penelope — whose husband, Odysseus, is generally cited as the ultimate trickster — Linda uses her cunning to save herself and her family.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Once the Kansas City Royals finally started hitting, there was no stopping them.
The Royals turned a 3-1 deficit into a 13-3 bulge with a team-record 12-run inning Tuesday night en route to a 14-7 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
"A lot of people think there's not any momentum in baseball, but that inning just carried over," said Ken Harvey, who had two hits and three RBIs in the 12-run sixth. "It's like it became infectious. You want to do the same thing the guy in front of you did, keep it going, not be the one to make it stop."
The outburst broke the team record of 11 runs in an inning, which Kansas City had accomplished three times in its 34-year history. And the win pulled the Royals to within two games of the Twins in the AL Central.
J.C. Romero, one of four Twins pitchers used in the sixth, was ejected along with manager Ron Gardenhire after Aaron Guiel was plunked following the inning's sixth run.
"Ugly ballgame. Got away from us," said Gardenhire, who's been ejected five times this season. "We had a lead. We were cruising, it looked like. Kenny Rogers had only given up two hits. … It was a snowball effect. We just couldn't stop them."
For the game, Harvey was 4-for-5 with three doubles and five RBIs. Raul Ibanez and Mike Sweeney each had two RBIs in the record-breaking inning that included a team record-tying 16 plate appearances.
Reliever Kris Wilson (3-0) got the win after giving up two runs in the top of the sixth and falling behind 3-1.
"I let us down and then they turn around and put 12 on the board. I never had that happen before," Wilson said.
With the bases loaded and nobody out, Carlos Beltran and Ibanez each had RBI singles off Rogers (5-3) before Harvey singled home two runs.
With one out, Brent Mayne had an RBI single, and Carlos Febles brought home a run with a squeeze bunt.
Romero then hit Aaron Guiel with his next pitch to reload the bases, and he was immediately ejected. Gardenhire came out to argue with plate umpire Larry Poncino and was also thrown out.
Michael Nakamura relieved and hit Joe Randa, bringing home the seventh run of the inning.
Sweeney then lashed a double off the fence in center. Torii Hunter misplayed the ball for an error, which cleared the bases and gave Sweeney two RBIs.
With two out, Ibanez had an RBI single, and Harvey added a run-scoring double.
"That was an amazing inning," Sweeney said. "After you score five or six, the crowd gets excited and as hitters we feed off each other."
In the eighth, Twins rookie Justin Morneau hit a 425-foot solo homer, the first of his career. Tom Prince had a two-run homer for the Twins in the seventh and Corey Koskie had a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Dustan Mohr added a solo homer in the ninth to make it 14-7.
Luis Rivas' RBI triple put the Twins ahead in the sixth. Rivas scored on Denny Hocking's single to make it 3-1.
Royals starter Jeremy Affeldt went five innings, allowing five hits and one run, striking out three and walking a career-high five.
Rogers went five innings and gave up six hits and seven runs, with four walks and three strikeouts.
"My luck ran out in the sixth," he said. "I just didn't have any commandat all."
Beltran reached base eight straight plate appearances—six walks and two hits—before striking out in the fourth. … Koskie has hit safely in 11 of 14 games. … Matt LeCroy stranded six runners, striking out with the bases loaded in the third and flying out with them loaded in the sixth. … Rogers' 603 career games is the most among active pitchers with at least 100 victories…. Febles made his first start since going on the disabled list May 28.


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Ratings based on 133 Verified Reviews
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4.8 Room cleanliness
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4.5 Room comfort
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for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Toronto, Canada
Great locationPosted Sep 17, 2015
The staff were very nice and friendly. The rooms were very modern, clean and comfortable. I like that they were right downtown and surrounded by fantastic restaurants. I recommend St. Elmo steak house. You will not be disappointed.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Minneapolis
Great locationPosted Sep 16, 2015
Pros: Great location, friendly staff!
Location: Close to shopping, sports and many restaurants
The staff were very accomodating, welcoming, very helpful and friendly. I'd stay here again and again and highly recommend!
for Couplesby A verified traveler
Amazing surprisePosted Sep 16, 2015
Pros: The staff, but particularly the restaurant and food.
Location: in the heart of downtown indy, malls, restaurants, bars, clubs, stadiums etc etc right nearby
The hotel itself is clean and upscale, the rooms are a little smaller than usual, however... The staff is phenomenal and the restaurant and room service is incredible.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Carmel
Nice Hotel, Indianapolis Hidden TreasurePosted Sep 1, 2015
Pros: Staff, Room, Location
Cons: Bed was too firm
Location: Its in downtown Indianapolis, connected to mall, near many restaurants, Lucas Oil, Convention Center, Banker's Life Fieldhouse & Victory Field.
This hotel seems to be a Indianapolis hidden treasure! It started with the price... Very reasonable. After I booked the hotel, my husband called the hotel to surprise me with flowers in the room. The hotel representative helped my husband by ordering the flowers (which were absolutely beautiful) & having them waiting in the room when we arrived. Once he found out we were celebrating our anniversary, they upgraded our room. After check-in, they delivered chocolate covered strawberries and champagne to our room. They also gave us a voucher for breakfast the next morning. The check-in receptionist was so friendly and made us feel very welcome. Once we got to the room, I was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was. Very modern & updated. The bathroom had a large shower and was very clean. The bed was too firm for my liking, but the bedding was very comfortable. We had dinner at St. Elmo's Steak House, which was next door to the hotel. The hotel is home to Spoke and Wheel Restaurant, which is where we had breakfast. It was good, too. I loved this hotel and can't wait to stay there again.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Ohio
Great pick!Posted Aug 24, 2015
Everything was great! The room is quite cozy but clean and comfortable for two.
by A verified traveler
Nicely located in the middle of everythingPosted Aug 19, 2015
It was clean and the bed was highly comfortable. For being fully booked it was quiet the entire stay. We really enjoyed our honeymoon there!
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
Great location in downtown Indianapolis.Posted Aug 16, 2015
Location: Le Meridien is so well located that you can walk to everything downtown--restaurants, concert venues, Lucas Oil Stadium, etc.
We enjoyed our stay at Le Meridien. The housekeeping staff left a bit to be desired. We arrived on Wednesday and left on Saturday, and, except for one day, I'm not sure our room was ever cleaned. We made the bed ourselves. We were supposed to receive a daily coupon for coffee, but after we used the coupon that was there when we arrived, we never received another. The bed was comfortable, as were the pillows. The heating/cooling system, however, overpowered our tiny room. I never was able to adjust the temperature to our satisfaction. The location is excellent, however, and the room was nice and newly remodeled.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Centerville, OH
Girls WeekendPosted Aug 3, 2015
Pros: Great staff, great location, very clean
Cons: Nothing - our room was perfect
Location: The location is right in the middle of downtown and connected to the mall. Perfect location!
The hotel and staff were absolutely amazing! From the minute the valet opened my door we were treated like queens which was perfect because we were there for a girls pampering and party weekend! I felt safe as they parked my car, and always offered recommendations on where to eat or go and were helpful from the minute I arrived to the second we left.
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NOT THE CANTERBURYPosted Jul 27, 2015
Pros: Location
Went for the weekend. Booked room online w/ Expedia. Staff acted like because I booked w/ Expedia that any issues were not their problem. Got into room. My closet was larger than this room. Room so small that only 1 night stand. The bed was so close to wall that I had to crawl out only to bang my knee on the wall corner. Only about 3-4" from wall. Room temp set at 65 but room was 74 deg. Booked room for 2 but in the room was only 1 set of towels, 1 robe. No in room coffee, Ice bucket so small that it was useless. Hotel "brochure" did not tell where ice was. Called front desk 3 times-no answer. Finally went down to ask were ice was. It was not on my floor. Room was so hot and claustrophobic that we checked out early and left at about 6am. Bed should have been on other side of room, this room was apparently meant for 1. For the price I will stay in a more comfortable hotel. The rooms were clean but very uncomfortable due to temperature and size. Had I known I would have to crawl in & out of bed and crack my knee & shin on a wall in the dark I would have booked a room elsewhere. This could have been helped if the bed was on the other side of the room where at least two night stands would fit. The microscopic rooms are a major turn off. Décor in room very modern unlike the historic nature of the structure. Quite disappointing. Wont be back & we stay downtown once or twice a month.
by A verified traveler from Indiana
Not the CanterburyPosted Jul 20, 2015
Pros: Location
Cons: How about putting bed on the other side of the room so that you can actually get in and out of it without causing a blood clot in a leg.
Chose this hotel as we were frequent guests of Canterbury. Booked for 2 nights/2 People. Room was small, microscopic. So small that it had only 1 night stand. One side of the bed was within about 3" of the wall and you had to crawl out of it to get out of bed. When getting back in bed I hit shin on the corner wall of the HVAC system and injured leg. Though we booked for 2 guests there was only one set of towels, one robe, no in room coffee. Ice "bucket" was about 2 cups large. Room temp was set at the lowest setting, 65 but room temp was 74 deg. No literature in room as to ice locations, etc. Called front desk 3 times, no answer. Finally went down to find out where ice was located. It was on the 10th floor. We were on 9th floor. Decided to check out early and leave (about 7am) because the room was so claustrophobic, hot and small. No valet or baggage help to be found. Went and got our car and left. Front desk help was friendly when present. This is not the same service nor quality and caliber of the Canterbury. Will either stay at the Conrad or Omni in the future. The room rates were nearly the same but much better choices than Le Meridian


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Six Mexican Women Serving Homicide Sentences For Abortions
Abortion laws vary across Mexico, but the state where the women were convicted takes a hardline stance. The conservative state Guanajuato won't enforce a federal law against gender violence, and although it has a high rate of teen pregnancy, sex ed is not taught in its schools. The mayor even attempted to outlaw passionate kissing in public.
If you think something like this could never happen here, consider the fact that a majority of Americans now consider themselves "pro-life." Of course, different views regarding the legality of abortion can live within the pro-life designation. For example, someone who considers herself pro-life may want it legal in case of rape or incest, or to punish the doctors, not the women, while another pro-life person may want women who have abortions to go to prison. Could you imagine something like this happening in the US?


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The Redskins have turned the season around! Yes, it's just been...
A lot of people are killing Jadevon Clowney for his less than inspiring performance vs. UNC in South Carolina's season opener. Clowney ended the game with just three tackles and was off the field often due to UNC's high tempo offense. Many critics have suggested that Clowney's conditioning wasn't up to par, and that may be true, but let's keep some things in mind:
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